It would not be unheard of for the US hardcover first of The Bachman Books to easily go for more than $200 in fine condition. There were only 15,000 hardcover copies printed (and they printed the trade paperback at the same time, so those sold more quickly).

Well, I didn't include it because it's realy a reprint of previous stories not it's own edition. I suppose I could, but there are other omibus type editions out there, should I include those? Or perhaps make a page where I lump those types of editions together?

jhanic wrote:It would not be unheard of for the US hardcover first of The Bachman Books to easily go for more than $200 in fine condition. There were only 15,000 hardcover copies printed (and they printed the trade paperback at the same time, so those sold more quickly).

John

Very eeeenteresting... I was fuzzy on the print run for that one. I own a 1st ed HC of this book, but have always lusted over the original paperbacks.

I found this book (plus a 1st edition cpoy of The Shining) at a local used book exchange in Gainesville, Georgia. I do a lot of 'Horse Trading' in books. My girlfriend is a librarian and she gives away discarded inventory to thrift stores and such. If they are unmarked, those can be exchanged for store credit at local used book stores. I also hit estate and garage sales. Anyhow, I was dropping off a huge box of trashy romance novels at the book exchange and noticed both of them sitting on a shelf behind the counter. I asked the clerk why they were kept back there instead of with the other store inventory and she said they cost more. When I asked to have a look at them I noticed they were drastically more expensive than the rest of the "regular" stock on the shelves. In fact, they were near double - a whole ten dollars apiece! Twenty dollars has never flown from my wallet so quickly and I walked out of the store looking like I had stolen something. I kept thinking the clerk was going to stop me and want them back before I could pull my car out of the parking lot.

The Bachman Books to easily go for more than $200 in fine condition. There were only 15,000 hardcover copies printed (and they printed the trade paperback at the same time, so those sold more quickly).???